Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@gmail.com>]

On 11/05/13 20:10, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2013-05-11 19:50 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a new version of the mpich2 packages. It is being
> > renamed to mpich, so I have introduced some transitional packages.
> >
> > For example, the current package called libmpich2-dev will be replaced
> > with the new package libmpich-dev. Therefore, libmpich2-dev will
> > become a transitional package that depends on libmpich-dev. This is
> > what I have specified in the control file for the new mpich.
> >
> > I am not referring to any virtual packages in the control file, as far
> > as I can see myself. However, lintian gives me this:
> >
> > tmac@asus:$ lintian mpich_3.0.4-1_amd64.changes
> > .
> > .
> > W: libmpich2-dev: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
> > depends: libmpich-dev
> > .
> > .
> >
> > Does anyone know why lintian would think that libmpich-dev, which is a
> > new package that will appear with the newer mpich-packages, is a
> > virtual package?
>
> You should probably version the dependency, did you do that?

Yes, I have:

Package: libmpich2-dev
Architecture: any
Section: libdevel
Depends: libmpich-dev (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
Description: ...
 ....

- Torquil